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Cider Chat

Interviewing cidermakers importers, orchardists, foodies, farmers and cider enthusiasts around the world. Let’s delve into the semantics of cider…or is it hard cider, cidre, sidra or fermented apple juice? The truth is out there in Ciderville and we are going to find it. We toast in celebration of cider; As a libation, a gift from the gods, a taste of terroir, and a hard pressed good time. Ready to quench your thirst? Grab a glass and join this chat! See you in Ciderville!

Oct 31, 2018

How to teach Cidermaking 101 is fairly straight forward:

Have on hand:

  • Fresh pressed apple juice
  • A carboy or some sanitized vessel to hold the juice, with enough room for it to ferment and not bubble over.
  • An airlock to release CO2 and keep out Oxygen

That is the basics, but in truth there is more to consider before...


Oct 24, 2018

Dave Carr makes cider using wild yeast and oak barrels (primarily). Raging Cider and Mead is based in San Marcos, California, which is about 15 minutes in land from Oceanside and based in San Diego County, California.

Dave Carr Raging Cider Dave Carr

Raging is an urban cidery with an orchard based twist, which means Dave is bringing apples...


Oct 17, 2018

In this episode 150 The Nose visits the Cider House Recording studio and helps Ria look at “What is possible” in the coming year.

With now a 150 episodes there is a lot to review and reminiscence after meeting so many wonderful people all around Ciderville.

Please share a big tip of the glass to commercial makers...


Oct 10, 2018

Sign up for the New England Cider Tour November 1st!

New England Cider Tour

The first Franklin County CiderDays began as a one day event on the first Saturday of November. The year was 1994. It has been held on the first weekend of November every year since for the past 24 years. Much has remained the same, except that the event itself has...


Oct 3, 2018

Kees Morsink and Margaret Van Helvoort have traveled the world as United Nations aid workers in Africa where they were fermenting everything from yogurt to mango and even doing some distilling. Cider isn’t new to these two enterprising Canadians. Kees had his first spontaneous ferment forty years ago when he put...